Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
humor heart sanity
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
humor obscure social
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
funny patience humor
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
funny women humor
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
humor essence mind
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
joy criticism next
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
cat men vanity
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
cat circles secret
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
talking people sacred
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
innovation committed illuminating
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
years example construction
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
lying book looks
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.